Archive:June 2006

Apparently the craze sweeping the tennis players at Wimbledon this year is blogging. …for many of the players, the [rainy] weather meant the chance for many to turn to their favourite pastime â€” blogging. Is that a recipe for disaster? Usually when public figures and celebrities try their hand at blogging it is absolutely shit. […]

Flags seem to be in the news a bit at the moment, particularly over that pond. Is there nothing more interesting going on? Obviously not, because I can’t think of anything else to blog about at the moment. Anyway, the World Cup has enough of an excuse for flags to be discussed in the blogosphere […]

Hello, my name is Max Mosley. Please will you take my bullshit survey? I will be able to twist it out of shape and use it as justification for my many ridiculous rule changes, such as making engines last for 200 years at a time and making drivers qualify whilst standing on their heads. I […]

I’m a bit late with this one, so I’ll try to keep it brief! I enjoyed the Canadian Grand Prix. There always seemed to be something ready to happen just around the corner. Marbling is common in motor racing, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it causing such trouble for the drivers, with David […]

I’ll be honest here. I’ve gone right off Plaid over these past few years. ‘Double Figureâ€™ is a brilliant album in my view, but everything after that seemed a bit half-hearted. All of their music started to sound the same, and I even remember reading an interview where Ed Handley and Andy Turner pretty much […]

I’ve spent this evening sprucing up the blog a bit. Nothing major, just a general tidy up. I have decided to put the sidebar back on every page, even though (i.e. because) it’s only got adverts on it. It perhaps makes some of the pages look a bit cramped, although I think that might just […]

This story makes me angry on so many levels. First of all, if I ever got a school trip it was to Edinburgh Zoo, not the bloody World Cup. These kids were on a “Â£410-a-head tour”. Where do schoolchildren get that sort of money to fritter away on a school trip? Where is this school? […]

I have a confession to make. Last week there was a programme on Channel 4 about Feeder. I found it interesting. Because, whilst today I wouldn’t buy a CD unless it sounded like somebody shoving their laptop through a cheesegrater, back in the day (I can’t remember precisely which day, but it was during 2000) […]

F1Fanatic reports that ITV will be hiding the Canadian Grand Prix on their digital channels ITV4 and ITV2. Only highlights will be shown on ITV1. Perhaps ITV think that nobody will notice because of the World Cup. Well they are wrong. You would understand if there were World Cup matches clashing with the F1, but […]

Blue Peter have relaunched their badges scheme. Under the new system, a unique photo card will also be needed to enter the attractions. Previous winners can apply for a card on the Blue Peter website. The idea for the new scheme came from 11-year-old viewer Helen Jennings. Jennings wrote in to the show with a […]